Definition of correct

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Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

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Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..
Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..
Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
Control :: Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register..
Opsiometer :: Opsiometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the limits of distincts vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight..
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Inelegant :: Inelegant (a.) Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires..
Approximation :: Approximation (n.) A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.
Propriety :: Propriety (n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc..
Har Monically :: Har monically (adv.) In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct..
Emendation :: Emendation (n.) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement..
Interline :: Interline (v. t.) To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book..
Uncorrect :: Uncorrect (a.) Incorrect.
Tune :: Tune (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
Revise :: Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Met- :: Met- () A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely..
Hara-kiri :: Hara-kiri (n.) Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari..
Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement..
Base :: Base (a.) Not classical or correct.
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